THE NERVE CELL BODY 



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branches of a tree, but never anastomosing with each other or with other cells. 

 These branches are what have already been referred to as the dendrites of 



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FIG. 05 Ganglion Cells, Showing Neurofibrils. A, Anterior-horn cells of human; B, cell 

 from tnT facial nucleus of rabbit; C, dendrite of anterior-horn cell of human. (Bethe.) 



FIG. 9 6.-Cell of the Anerior Horn of the Human Spinal Cord, Stained by Nissl's Method, 

 showing ckromophiles. (After Edmger.) 



the cell. They were formerly called the protoplasmic processes, figures 91, 

 93 It is thus seen that the neurone or nerve unit consists of a number of 

 subdivisions, namely, the cell body, with its nucleus and nucleolus, the 



